Jerry Hoffman began building instruments in 2005 while he was still publishing Blacksmith’s Journal. By 2007 he was building instruments full-time. Before the Journal, he owned a blacksmith’s shop that produced hand forged architectural ironwork. His education is in graphic arts and he worked designing special fonts for photo typesetting machines until 1976 when he opted for self-employment first as a farrier, then blacksmith, then publisher, and finally as a luthier designing and building custom ukuleles.
▪ bio current as of 2015